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Leticha / del magnio filosefo Aristotile.

Author/Creator:
Alderotti, Taddeo, 1223-1295.
Format/Description:
Manuscript
33 leaves : paper, color illustrations ; 285 x 197 (208 x 115) mm bound to 293 x 201 mm
Production:
[Italy], [between 1450 and 1499?]
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Subjects:
Aristotle. Nicomachean ethics -- Early works to 1800.
Aristotle -- Criticism and interpretation -- Early works to 1800.
Aristotle.
Ethics -- Early works to 1800.
Ethics.
Criticism and interpretation.
Form/Genre:
Manuscripts, Italian -- 15th century.
Manuscripts, Renaissance.
codices (bound manuscripts)
compendiums.
translations (documents)
Language:
Italian.
Summary:
Italian compendium of Aristotle's Nichomachean ethics.
Notes:
Ms. codex.
Title from opening rubric (f. 1r): Qui comenza lo libro chiamato leticha del magnio filosefo Aristotile pieno de moralita Iesus Cristus.
Collation: Paper, i (modern paper) + 33 + i (modern paper); 1¹²(+1), 2⁵, 3⁵; 1-33; contemporary foliation in ink, upper right recto. Link to collation model at end of record.
Layout: Written in 46 long lines; ruled in lead; some prickings visible.
Script: Written in a humanistic script by a single hand.
Decoration: Contains 46 large decorated initials throughout, in a variety of colors; decorated with complicated interlacings of serrated branchwork with cone-like fruit; two of the initials have a small coat of arms in the center (f. 1r, 15v); headings to the prologue and the various sections written in red, purple and green; capitals touched with yellow.
Binding: Modern half parchment.
Origin: Written in northeastern Italy in the second half of the 15th century (Barbara A. Shailor, Yale University, based on another fragment from the same parent manuscript).
Many stains and smudges. Slight wormhole damage, obliterating a few words of text on the first few folios. Edges starting to fray and tear in a few places. Binding and cover in good condition.
This text, with contemporary foliation 1-33, is missing its final leaf and was once followed by a treatise on the cardinal virtues based on Valerius Maximus and others, foliated 35-67, now the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library's Marston 43 (Eugenio Refini, University of Warwick).
Penn Provenance:
Gift of Charles W. Burr, 1938 (bookplate, inside upper cover).
Cited in:
Described in Zacour, Norman P. and Hirsch, Rudolf. Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Libraries of the University of Pennsylvania to 1800 (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1965), p. 93 (Ms. Italian 4).
Riley, Lyman W. "Aristotle Texts and Commentaries to 1700 in the University of Pennsylvania Library." Part V. The Library Chronicle XXIV (1958), 86-98. This manuscript listed in the section: "Manuscripts (Catalogued by Norman P. Zacour)," p. 94 (item number M4).
Cited as:
Taddeo Alderotti, Leticha del magnio filosefo Aristotile (Oversize Ms. Codex 243). Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, University of Pennsylvania.
Contributor:
Burr, Charles W. (Charles Walts), 1861-1944, former owner.
OCLC:
155964081